Samuel Miles

Samuel Miles (11 March 1740-29 December 1805) was Mayor of Philadelphia from 1790 to 1791, succeeding Samuel Powel and preceding John Barclay.

Biography
Samuel Miles was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1740, and he served in the militia during the French and Indian War before entering politics and being elected to the House of Assembly in 1772. He was an early advocate for American independence, and he raised a militia company during the American Revolutionary War. He was captured at the Battle of Long Island, but he was released in a prisoner exchange in 1778. From 1790 to 1791, he served as Mayor of Philadelphia as a Federalist, and, in 1792, he became the first faithless elector when he, pledged to vote for John Adams, instead voted for Democratic-Republican presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson. In 1798, he ran for the US Congress twice as a Democratic-Republican, losing both times. He died in 1805.